Williams Shannen Dee Williams

Subversive Habits (eBook, PDF)

Black Catholic Nuns in the Long African American Freedom Struggle

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Produktbeschreibung

In Subversive Habits, Shannen Dee Williams provides the first full history of Black Catholic nuns in the United States, hailing them as the forgotten prophets of Catholicism and democracy. Drawing on oral histories and previously sealed Church records, Williams demonstrates how master narratives of women's religious life and Catholic commitments to racial and gender justice fundamentally change when the lives and experiences of African American nuns are taken seriously. For Black Catholic women and girls, embracing the celibate religious state constituted a radical act of resistance to white supremacy and the sexual terrorism built into chattel slavery and segregation. Williams shows how Black sisters-such as Sister Mary Antona Ebo, who was the only Black member of the inaugural delegation of Catholic sisters to travel to Selma, Alabama, and join the Black voting rights marches of 1965-were pioneering religious leaders, educators, healthcare professionals, desegregation foot soldiers, Black Power activists, and womanist theologians. In the process, Williams calls attention to Catholic women's religious life as a stronghold of white supremacy and racial segregation-and thus an important battleground in the long African American freedom struggle.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 418
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. März 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781478022817
• Artikelnr.: 66282954

Autorenporträt

Shannen Dee Williams is Associate Professor of History at the University of Dayton.

Inhaltsangabe

Abbreviations  ix
Note on Terminology  xiii
Preface: Bearing Witness to a Silenced Past  xv
Acknowledgments  xix
Introduction. America’s Forgotten Black Freedom Fighters  1
1. Our Sole Wish Is to Do the Will of God: The Early Struggles of Black
Catholic Sisters in the United States  23
2. Nothing Is Too Good for the Youth of Our Race: The Fight for
Black-Administered Catholic Education during Jim Crow  61
3. Is the Order Catholic Enough? The Struggle to Desegregate White
Sisterhoods after World War II  103
4. I Was Fired Up to Go to Selma: Black Sisters, the Second Vatican
Council, and the Fight for Civil Rights  134
5. Liberation Is Our First Priority: Black Nuns and Black Power  167
6. No Schools, No Churches! The Fight to Save Black Catholic Education in
the 1970s  200
7. The Future of the Black Catholic Nun Is Dubious: African American
Sisters in the Age of Church Decline  231
Conclusion. The Catholic Church Wouldn't Be Catholic If It Wasn’t for Us 
259
Glossary  271
Notes  273
Bibliography  345
Index  371